Bad Words etc

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:39 pm

Verbal wrote:'He read the script.'

No.

When its Eastenders or some other sh1te, I really wish they feckin hadn't....

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:40 pm

at the end of the day

ummm, nope, it's not really

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:45 pm

Batman wrote:at the end of the day

ummm, nope, it's not really

It will be in 2 hours 15 minutes.

WoodpeckerBWFC · Post by **WoodpeckerBWFC** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:25 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:
Batman wrote:at the end of the day

ummm, nope, it's not really
It will be in 2 hours 15 minutes.

No, the end of the day happens at 18:00 then it is night time.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:27 pm

nope, 5pm is when it becomes evening

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:30 pm

Pedantic muthaf*ckers.

With all due respect, naturally.

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:39 am

"In the Onion-Bag"

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:11 pm

"In my heart of hearts"

What the chuff does that mean? It's generally used when someone's doing a U-turn, but what the fup's it mean?

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:29 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:"In my heart of hearts"

What the chuff does that mean? It's generally used when someone's doing a U-turn, but what the fup's it mean?

I suppose people tell you "what they really think", but in their heart of hearts they may harbour thoughts they rarely dare utter - so use this phrase to highlight those rare occasions when they are willing to tell the truth - usually some sort of reservation. Just a guess.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:39 pm

Monty m'friend, I know what they're trying to say, but what's the image? Would they say "in my mind of minds"?

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:53 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Monty m'friend, I know what they're trying to say, but what's the image? Would they say "in my mind of minds"?

Well, I suppose true feeling come from the heart not the mind. I'm sure you've had a gut instinct which is likely as anatomically incorrect (if you are in your right mind).

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:58 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Monty m'friend, I know what they're trying to say, but what's the image? Would they say "in my mind of minds"?
Well, I suppose true feeling come from the heart not the mind. I'm sure you've had a gut instinct which is likely as anatomically incorrect (if you are in your right mind).

but, even sticking my neck out, I can't get my head round this "heart of hearts" thing. It's not the anatomy - I often do get a bad feeling in my gut, a sinking feeling, don't we all? - it's the concept...

Sing hosannah to the heart of hearts

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:11 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Montreal Wanderer wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Monty m'friend, I know what they're trying to say, but what's the image? Would they say "in my mind of minds"?
Well, I suppose true feeling come from the heart not the mind. I'm sure you've had a gut instinct which is likely as anatomically incorrect (if you are in your right mind).
but, even sticking my neck out, I can't get my head round this "heart of hearts" thing. It's not the anatomy - I often do get a bad feeling in my gut, a sinking feeling, don't we all? - it's the concept...

Sing hosannah to the heart of hearts

Clearly time for some pedantry - basically it is misquoting Shakespeare that is at fault (having looked it up).

Hamlet:
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 71–74

The Bard was a logical man, and he went about coining sensible phrases in a rational fashion. Thus, Hamlet does not say "in my heart of hearts," but "in my heart of heart"—that is, at the "heart" (center) of my heart. The phrase is in fact a synonym for "In my heart's core." And like the heart of an artichoke, the heart of Hamlet's heart is its most tender part. He reserves this region of his affection for men who aren't slaves to their passion, who are governed by reason, like his friend Horatio (whom he addresses here) and, indeed, like the phrase-coining Shakespeare.

We've perverted the phrase into "in my heart of hearts" by way of expressions like Ecclesiastes' "vanity of vanities." But where Ecclesiastes had a number of vanities from which to elect a chief or encompassing vanity—presumption—one doesn't have a number of hearts. Even granting that we use "heart" mostly as a metaphor and not with reference to the organ, we never mean to speak of having more than one.

So you are correct to let the phrase bother you.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:57 pm

(Thanks Monty.)

New one. We're watching an entertaining if slightly hyperactive Horizon documentary - What The New President Needs To Know About Science, or somesuch - and the (English) narrator has just mentioned something called "nucular" power. Four times. I mean, do your job, love.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:05 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:(Thanks Monty.)

New one. We're watching an entertaining if slightly hyperactive Horizon documentary - What The New President Needs To Know About Science, or somesuch - and the (English) narrator has just mentioned something called "nucular" power. Four times. I mean, do your job, love.

No problem - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

Note: "U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have all used this pronunciation"

Even the OED recognizes it as a disfavoured pronunciation.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:51 pm

why has "he's put in a good shift" become de rigeur amongst football managers this season

tony cunninghams willy · Post by **tony cunninghams willy** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:58 pm

My kids have just started using the word "random" (that's a really random laugh dad).

Winds me up to buggery.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:34 pm

communistworkethic wrote:why has "he's put in a good shift" become de rigeur amongst football managers this season

No idea, but one of my players used that one tonight after a very hard working game (won 1-0 against 3rd in the league), and I immediately hated it. Some would say it got on my goat.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:33 am

I heard some f*ckwit footballer use the phrase 'late doors' the other day.

The context was in reference to a late equaliser and he was extolling the virtue of his team-mate to still be concentrating on his game 'late doors'

The tw@.

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:56 am

enfieldwhite wrote:I heard some f*ckwit footballer use the phrase 'late doors' the other day.

The context was in reference to a late equaliser and he was extolling the virtue of his team-mate to still be concentrating on his game 'late doors'

The tw@.

I don't see what's wrong with that. Just the opposite of "early doors".
I look forward to hearing such phrases as "under the moon", "as healthy as a parrot" and more Big-Ron orientated ones such as "big eyebrows", "blind-person's badge" and so on.

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